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Notes From a Freshman Beekeeper By Heidi Lewis Who is a bee’s favorite singer? Sting. Favorite band? The Bee Gees. Why do bees hum? Because they don’t know the words—OK, OK, enough of the second-grade jokes. It’s just that the bee situation could use a little levity: It appears that this winter may have been [...]
Beekeepers Report Huge Losses Over Winter By Eileen Ecklund Spring is in the air. Across the country, trees and other plants are bursting into flower, and bees are busy pollinating them. But this year the buzzing may seem a bit muted: fewer honeybees than ever made it through the winter, in a disappointing resurgence of [...]
By Heidi Lewis It’s spring. Blossoms are abundant. Time to get pollinating in the fruit orchards. But since colony collapse disorder has been decimating the honeybee population, we’ll have to look outside the organization for some help. As they say in the bee biz, “No bees, no honey; no work, no money.” We all admire [...]
The FruitGuys in the Dirt: A Farm Steward Story By Amanda Pineault On Saturday, March 12, 2011 a small contingent of FruitGuys joined Cub Scouts from Santa Rosa and participants from the Volunteer Center for Sonoma County at Gabriel Farm in Sebastopol, CA (Sonoma County). The theme for the day was pollinators! Before we could [...]
National Pollinator Week June 21-27 EAST Pollinators in American Indian Art Jun 16-27 Washington, DC Green Belt Plant Nursery at Freshkills special Pollinator Tour Jun 25 Elizabeth, NJ New Amsterdam Market opens Jun 27 New York, NY WEST Cooking Class with Kitchen On Fire Jun 19 Berkeley, CA Bee Social Jun 20 Watsonville, CA Organic [...]
The Bee Beat: an occasional series on our friendly pollinators “Go native.” That was the position taken at a recent Bee Symposium in Sebastopol, CA hosted by BeeKind and The Partners for Sustainable Pollination. The symposium hall was filled to capacity with beekeepers and wanna-bees. Lectures by apiary luminaries Dr. Robbin Thorp, Randy Oliver, Serge [...]
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